Survey: The more Americans support gay ‘marriage,’ the less they support marriage in general

Mar 22, 2016 by Jill

By Fr Mark Hodges, LifeSite:

The National Survey of Family Growth concludes that while more and more Americans support homosexual “marriage,” they simultaneously support marriage less and less.

The U.S. Health and Human Services survey, using data from 2011 to 2013, revealed increasing apathy toward marriage in general and a disconnect from the positive role marriage should play in families and individuals.

Sixty percent of women ages 15-44 say sodomy is “all right” (up from 42 percent in 2002). Seventy-five percent of women say gay couples should be able to adopt vulnerable children (up from 55 percent). Among men, approval of homosexual adoption is up from 47 percent in 2002 to 68 percent.

Seventy-eight percent of women say it’s perfectly fine to bear children out of wedlock (up from 70 percent). And nearly three quarters of both men and women are okay with unmarried, cohabiting couples raising a child without even planning a wedding.

Marriage has become so disconnected from sex and children that a majority of young adults defend fornication on moral grounds, saying cohabitation “helps prevent divorce” later on.

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